Chicago O'Hare Duty Free

Has anyone flown internationally out of O'Hare recently? I would like to know what bourbons they carry in the duty free store. I am flying to Ireland and I am going to the Cooley distillery for a private tour. I promised the person who is giving me the tour a bottle of bourbon. With the new rules I can't bring it with me so I have to rely on duty free or chance it in my checked luggage.

Scott

Too much of anything is bad, but too much of good whisky is barely enough. - Mark Twain

Has anyone flown internationally out of O'Hare recently? I would like to know what bourbons they carry in the duty free store. I am flying to Ireland and I am going to the Cooley distillery for a private tour. I promised the person who is giving me the tour a bottle of bourbon. With the new rules I can't bring it with me so I have to rely on duty free or chance it in my checked luggage.

Scott

My understanding is you can't purchase any duty-free bourbon at all right now.

Scott, I don't know if this helps, but when I flew out of LAX last week they had a sign at the Duty Free Shop that stated..."Business as Usual". It went on to explain that you could buy anything, and could retrieve it at sometime....Don't know details, but it seems maybe things have loosened up? I'm guessing if LAX has gone this far, then most major airports, including ORD have also?

Did you like the WT sherry signature? I have never tried it or known someone who has.

Scott

I thought it was very nice. The sherry is mostly in the nose, not so much on the tongue. Of course the setting helped too, I drank it with some good friends in northern Sweden over the course of a couple snowy evenings. I would definitely buy it again.

The last time I saw the WT 12 year in duty free was in Cincinnati last summer.

It will depend on which terminal you fly out of. If you are on United or Lufthansa and fly out of Terminal 1 there are two very small duty free shops with little or no selection. I picked up a bottle of Rare Breed a couple of months ago for $32 no tax. If you are flying out of terminal 5 I understand that there is a bigger store but I have not flown out of there, so I cannot tell you what they have.